Joel Gilberthttp://www.pfaw.org/
Tue, 13 Sep 2016 16:52:31 -0400Tue, 13 Sep 2016 16:52:31 -0400Pro-Trump Super PAC Teams Up With Birther For 'Super Trump' Time Square Billboardhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pro-trump-super-pac-teams-birther-super-trump-time-square-billboard
<p>A super PAC supporting Donald Trump&rsquo;s candidacy, headed up by his longtime friend Roger Stone, is teaming up with a notorious anti-Obama conspiracy theorist to erect a digital billboard in Times Square showing the GOP presidential nominee as the superhero &ldquo;Super Trump.&rdquo;</p>
<p>WorldNetDaily&rsquo;s chief birther correspondent, Jerome Corsi, <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2016/09/its-a-bird-its-a-plane-its-super-trump/">reported</a> over the weekend that Stone&rsquo;s <a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/talesfromthetrail/2015/12/18/new-pro-trump-super-pac-vows-to-restore-americas-greatness/"> Committee to Restore America&rsquo;s Greatness </a> is bankrolling a Times Square run for a billboard designed by <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/joel-gilbert">Joel Gilbert</a>. Gilbert provides a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgM1PDV3dFI">preview</a> on his YouTube channel:</p>
<p align="center"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pgM1PDV3dFI" width="560"></iframe></p>
<p>Gilbert became a celebrity in the far right in 2012, when he <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/alabama-gop-chairman-promotes-fringe-birther-movie-calls-it-factual-and-frightening">released a film</a> positing the alternative birther theory that President Obama was actually born in the United States but that his &ldquo;real father&rdquo; was labor activist Frank Marshall Davis, who raised him from birth to lead a communist takeover of America. Gilbert mailed his movie, &ldquo;Dreams From My Real Father,&rdquo; to voters in swing states but <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/joel-gilbert-swings-florida-voter">anecdotal</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/joel-gilbert-scoops-nyt-pulitzer-his-movie-continues-turn-swing-voters">evidence</a> suggested that its lurid depictions of a woman who Gilbert falsely claimed was Obama&rsquo;s mother turned off more voters than it won over.</p>
<p>Gilbert&rsquo;s inability to swing the 2012 election with his groundbreaking journalism, however, did not stop him from continuing to build on the story by exposing <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/joel-gilbert-obama-got-nose-job-hide-resemblance-frank-marshall-davis">the president&rsquo;s nose job</a> and his <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/dreams-my-real-father-director-s-new-project-obama-s-secret-muslim-wedding-ring"> secret Muslim wedding ring</a>.</p>
<p>Gilbert told Corsi that he was inspired to make his &ldquo;Super Trump&rdquo; design after watching Trump &ldquo;jet around the country in his airplane&rdquo; and that he thought the design would appeal to both millennials and older generations:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Gilbert explained he designed his image of the superhero because he could envision a large number of Millennials voting for Trump, and he wanted to appeal to a younger audience. But he also felt older Americans would appreciate the Superman takeoff because many who grew up in the 1950s and 1960s watched the television show in which Superman, played by actor George Reeves, fought for &ldquo;Truth, justice, and the American way.&rdquo;</p>
</blockquote>
<p>The filmmaker created an accompanying poster, which Corsi reports &ldquo;he expects could go viral on the Internet.&rdquo;</p>
<p>According to Corsi, the billboard project is being funded by a donation from Bob Shillman of California, a board member of the <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/david-horowitz-freedom-center">David Horowitz Freedom Center</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>&ldquo;When I was a kid, Superman was my idol,&rdquo; Shillman explained to WND. &ldquo;The digital billboard concept was appropriate for Trump because Trump is bringing change to presidential politics, just like the digital billboard concept is innovative, bringing presidential politics into pop culture.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Shillman also mentioned he liked debuting the &ldquo;Super Trump&rdquo; billboard in Times Square because New York City is Trump&rsquo;s home base of operations.</p>
<p>&ldquo;The billboard animation was designed to appeal to everyone who loves America and wants to see this country restored to its former greatness,&rdquo; Shillman said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m proud to have the opportunity to sponsor it.&rdquo;</p>
</blockquote>
<p>In a <a href="http://www.helpthedonaldwin.org/">statement</a> on the super PAC&rsquo;s website, Stone explains: &ldquo;Donald Trump will fight tirelessly for millions of people who are fed up with the weak, incompetent, and poor leadership from career politicians in both parties. Failed policies of both Bill and Hillary Clinton have brought America to the brink, it&rsquo;s no surprise that a Herculean effort is needed to make America great again. Donald Trump is heroic enough for that task.&rdquo;</p>
<p>According to the committee, the billboard will run from today through Friday in Times Square and along a highway in Florida.</p>
Miranda BlueBirtherC4Committee to Restore America&#039;s GreatnessElection 2016Joel GilbertRoger StoneDonald TrumpFighting the Right79321Tue, 13 Sep 2016 15:52:31 -0500Joel GilbertJoel Gilbert: Removing Jackson From Currency Shows 'The Leftists Are Not Different From The Islamists'http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/joel-gilbert-removing-jackson-currency-shows-leftists-are-not-different-islamists
<img class="imagefield imagefield-field_teaser_astory" width="1161" height="471" alt="" src="http://www.pfaw.org/sites/default/files/images/a_story_rww/Jackson%2020.jpg?1461865772" />
<p>Joel Gilbert, the right-wing filmmaker who promotes the <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/joel-gilbert-obama-got-nose-job-hide-resemblance-frank-marshall-davis">alternative birther theory</a> that President Obama&rsquo;s &ldquo;real father&rdquo; was labor activist Frank Marshall Davis,<a href="http://www.trunews.com/trunews-42516-j/"> joined</a> far-right radio host Rick Wiles on his &ldquo;Trunews&rdquo; program on Monday to discuss what Wiles called the &ldquo;cultural cleansing&rdquo; taking place with the removal of President Andrew Jackson from the front of the $20 bill.</p>
<p>Gilbert said that the decision to feature Harriet Tubman on the front of the $20 bill and move Jackson to the back and the efforts to take down the Confederate flag from government grounds are both part of the liberal effort to &ldquo;change everything and pretty much apologize and condemn the greatness of America and the history and judge it according to current value standards of the media and condemn American history, apologize for American history and then cover it up.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;The leftists are not different from the Islamists,&rdquo; he continued. &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t forget the Islamists, when Islam burst out of Arabia in the sixth century, seventh century, they came to Jerusalem, they renamed it al-Quds. Several centuries later, they took over the Christian city of Constantinople. Now it&rsquo;s called Istanbul.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;This is a way of changing the history to accommodate the new ideology in town,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;and changing the currency to wipe out the founding fathers from our consciousness, their principles and their ideals that created a nation of individual free markets and free speech, that is a way to achieve their long-term goals.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Jackson, who isn&rsquo;t generally considered a founding father, was <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/03/06/why-is-andrew-jackson-on-the-20-bill-the-answer-may-be-lost-to-history/" title="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/03/06/why-is-andrew-jackson-on-the-20-bill-the-answer-may-be-lost-to-history/
Ctrl+Click or tap to follow the link"> added to the $20 bill in 1928</a>.</p>
<p align="center"><iframe frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/261363203&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" width="100%"></iframe></p>
Miranda BlueC4Joel GilbertRick WilesTrunewsFighting the Right72976Thu, 28 Apr 2016 12:50:00 -0500Joel GilbertCruz Campaign Promotes Video By Radical Birther Who Thinks Obama Got A Nose Job To Hide His Real Fatherhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/cruz-campaign-promotes-video-radical-birther-who-thinks-obama-got-nose-job-hide-his-real-fat
<p>Sen. Ted Cruz&rsquo;s presidential campaign has been circulating a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu_hkbBueOg">bizarre &ldquo;viral&rdquo; video</a> depicting the Texas Republican as a RINO-slaughtering Star Wars hero fighting a Darth Vader-esque President Obama.</p>
<p>&ldquo;In honor of the latest Star Wars movie, the team here at Cruz HQ wanted to share with you a YouTube video created by a fellow supporter that depicts Senator Cruz as a Jedi Warrior, fighting for the Constitution,&rdquo; the Cruz campaign wrote in an email to supporters last night, linking to <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2016/01/04/jedi-ted-cruz-goes-viral-watch-the-constitution-strikes-back-the-cruzade/"> a fawning Breitbart article about the video. </a></p>
<p align="center"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Pu_hkbBueOg" width="560"></iframe></p>
<p>The article is written by the video&rsquo;s creator, Joel Gilbert, who writes of his work, &ldquo;<em>The Constitution Strikes Back</em> captures the charisma and character of Ted Cruz as a rebel warrior. It will set a new standard for production values and graphics quality for political satires. May the force be with Ted Cruz, and may the Constitution be with us!&rdquo;</p>
<p>Who is <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/joel-gilbert">Joel Gilbert</a>, whose work the Cruz campaign so admires?</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 20.4px;">Gilbert is a far-right conspiracy theorist who claims that Obama&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/dreams-my-real-father-director-s-new-project-obama-s-secret-muslim-wedding-ring" style="line-height: 20.4px;">wears a secret Muslim wedding ring</a><span style="line-height: 20.4px;">,&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/joel-gilbert-claims-obama-stole-election-nsa-data-letting-disabled-people-vote" style="line-height: 20.4px;">stole the 2012 election with stolen NSA data</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/joel-gilbert-speculates-obama-may-have-been-behind-aurora-shooting" style="line-height: 20.4px;">could have been behind the Aurora movie theater shooting.</a></p>
<p>Right Wing Watch readers will also recognize Gilbert from his work promoting the weird alternate birther theory that holds that President Obama&rsquo;s &ldquo;real father&rdquo; is a labor activist named Frank Marshall Davis, who nurtured Obama from birth to stage a communist takeover of America. Gilbert laid out this theory in his 2012 film &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/alabama-gop-chairman-promotes-fringe-birther-movie-calls-it-factual-and-frightening">Dreams From My Real Father</a>,&rdquo; whose main piece of evidence is some&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/28/with-dreams-from-my-real-father-have-obama-haters-hit-rock-bottom.html" style="line-height: 20.4px;">exploitative sexual images&nbsp;</a><span style="line-height: 20.4px;">of a woman who Gilbert&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.obamaconspiracy.org/2012/10/new-video-debunks-gilberts-dreams-movie/" style="line-height: 20.4px;">falsely claims is the president&rsquo;s mother</a><span style="line-height: 20.4px;">. He <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/28/with-dreams-from-my-real-father-have-obama-haters-hit-rock-bottom.html">mailed copies of his movie to hundreds of thousands of swing-state voters in 2012,</a>&nbsp;leaving <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/us/politics/strident-anti-obama-messages-flood-key-states.html?_r=0">at least some of them</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/joel-gilbert-swings-florida-voter">repulsed</a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 20.4px;">Gilbert has since elaborated on his theory, claiming, with the help of his friends at the birther outlet WorldNetDaily, that Obama&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/joel-gilbert-obama-got-nose-job-hide-resemblance-frank-marshall-davis" style="line-height: 20.4px;">got a nose job to hide his resemblance to Davis</a><span style="line-height: 20.4px;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 20.4px;">All in all, an interesting person for the Cruz campaign to be enthusiastically promoting.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 20.4px;">We wonder if Cruz&rsquo;s campaign will also promote the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jrrnkKmUzo">trailer </a>for &ldquo;Dreams From My Real Father&rdquo;:</span></p>
<p align="center"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6jrrnkKmUzo" width="560"></iframe></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
Miranda BlueC4Election 2016Joel GilbertTed CruzWorldNetDaily Fighting the Right67311Tue, 05 Jan 2016 10:28:05 -0500Joel GilbertAlex Jones: Liberals Are 'Demonic Villains' Who 'Want Blood' And Are 'Going To Kill Everybody'http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/alex-jones-liberals-are-demonic-villains-who-want-blood-and-are-going-kill-everybody
<p>Joel Gilbert, a conspiracy theorist filmmaker who followed up his 2012 opus on <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/alabama-gop-chairman-promotes-fringe-birther-movie-calls-it-factual-and-frightening"> President Obama&rsquo;s secret communist father </a> with a <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/joel-gilbert-unveils-new-movie-depicting-obama-communist-wizard-oz">recent movie</a> comparing the president the Wizard of Oz, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z67voj7-WqU">joined Alex Jones</a> yesterday to discuss Obama&rsquo;s &ldquo;game plan&rdquo; to stage a radical Marxist takeover of America.</p>
<p>Jones was, of course, in complete agreement, telling Gilbert, &ldquo;That&rsquo;s what I&rsquo;ve found when I&rsquo;ve been around socialists and communists at events over the decades.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been around a lot of them at all sorts of behind-the scenes Democratic conventions,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;They&rsquo;re really like criminal, bank robber types, like felon types I&rsquo;ve been around before that are really creepy and have bad will towards people. And behind the scenes they&rsquo;ll go, &lsquo;Listen, when we take over we&rsquo;re going to kill everybody. We want blood.&rsquo;&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;They really are demonic villains, but on the surface, it&rsquo;s like &lsquo;I&rsquo;m liberal.&rsquo; They are just so sick.&rdquo;</p>
<p align="center"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VCc0rdZd0Ec" width="560"></iframe></p>
Miranda BlueAlex JonesC4Joel GilbertFighting the Right51456Wed, 04 Mar 2015 15:46:44 -0500Joel GilbertJoel Gilbert: Liberals Using Pot To 'Exert Total Control' Over Drugged Populacehttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/joel-gilbert-liberals-using-pot-exert-total-control-over-drugged-populace
<p>Joel Gilbert, creator of last year&rsquo;s hit film &ldquo;Dreams From My Real Father&rdquo; (which made the case that President Obama&rsquo;s was lying about his communist genetics) is <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/joel-gilbert-unveils-new-movie-depicting-obama-communist-wizard-oz">out with a new film</a>, this one making the case that &ldquo;Barack Obama is the real life Wizard of Oz.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Unsurprisingly, Alex Jones is quite taken with Gilbert&rsquo;s new movie, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf95mTfFGoI&list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg">welcomed the filmmaker</a> onto his Infowars program last week to discuss the various ways in which they believe liberals are destroying America. One of those ways, it turns out, is the push for reforming marijuana laws, which Jones said that he actually supports but also thinks is a liberal plot to keep people &ldquo;stunned and stumbling around&rdquo; and voting for Democrats.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Well certainly the progressives will use anything, any tool, anything that comes up to exert total control,&rdquo; Gilbert agreed. &ldquo;The more the progressives can promote anything that keeps people from focusing on their radical agenda, the more they&rsquo;ll get behind it.&rdquo;</p>
<p align="center"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.pfaw.org//www.youtube.com/embed/eHjrKx1C33c" width="560"></iframe></p>
Miranda BlueAlex JonesC4Joel GilbertFighting the Right48792Mon, 27 Oct 2014 11:11:39 -0500Joel GilbertNew Birther Line: 'I Would Be Focusing Real Hard On Who's The Mommy'http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/new-birther-line-i-would-be-focusing-real-hard-whos-mommy
<img class="imagefield imagefield-field_teaser_astory" width="390" height="250" alt="" src="http://www.pfaw.org/sites/default/files/images/a_story_images/obama.jpg?1349226956" />
<p>Nearly six years into Barack Obama&rsquo;s presidency, birthers are still grasping for evidence that the president is lying somehow about who he is or where he was born.</p>
<p>In an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zinxQrGnC0U&feature=youtu.be">interview</a> with Denver radio host Peter Boyles this week, Mike Zullo, the &ldquo;lead investigator&rdquo; in Sheriff Joe Arpiao&rsquo;s &ldquo;Cold Case Posse&rdquo; suggested a new lead for birthers: Maybe Obama&rsquo;s mother wasn&rsquo;t actually his mother!</p>
<p>Zullo told Boyles that he doesn&rsquo;t know who Obama is, but &ldquo;all that I can tell you is I don&rsquo;t believe he is who he purports to be.&rdquo;</p>
<p>He said that he disagreed with fellow conspiracy theorist Joel Gilbert&rsquo;s assertion that <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/alabama-gop-chairman-promotes-fringe-birther-movie-calls-it-factual-and-frightening">the president&rsquo;s real father was American labor organizer Frank Marshall Davis</a>.&nbsp;<span style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">Instead, he said, &ldquo;I would be focusing real hard on who&rsquo;s the mommy.&rdquo;</span></p>
<p align="center"><iframe frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/170522093&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" width="100%"></iframe></p>
Miranda BlueArizonaBirtherC4Joe ArpaioJoel GilbertMike ZulloFighting the Right48557Fri, 03 Oct 2014 16:11:19 -0500Joel GilbertAlabama GOP Chairman: Obama Is A Sociopath, Probablyhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/alabama-gop-chairman-obama-sociopath-probably
<img class="imagefield imagefield-field_teaser_astory" width="390" height="250" alt="" src="http://www.pfaw.org/sites/default/files/images/a_story_images/obama.jpg?1349226956" />
<p>We <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/alabama-gop-chairman-promotes-fringe-birther-movie-calls-it-factual-and-frightening"> last checked in with Alabama Republican Chairman Bill Armistead </a> during the 2012 presidential campaign, when he was promoting the bizarre alternate birther theory that President Obama&rsquo;s real father was labor organizer Frank Marshall Davis. Armistead had picked up the idea from a smear film made by <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/joel-gilbert-obama-got-nose-job-hide-resemblance-frank-marshall-davis">right-wing filmmaker Joel Gilbert</a>, and was <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/alabama-gop-chairman-promotes-fringe-birther-movie-calls-it-factual-and-frightening">very impressed</a>, saying he had &ldquo;verified that it is factual, all of it.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Now, Armistead has gotten on board with another fringe right-wing theory about President Obama, this time echoing <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/do-we-have-a-sociopath-in-the-white-house-2/">Wayne Allyn Root&rsquo;s suggestion</a> that the president might actually be a diagnosable sociopath because of the fact that he was on vacation in Martha&rsquo;s Vineyard last week.</p>
<p>In an <a href="http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2014/08/is_president_obama_a_sociopath.html">email on Monday</a>, Armistead approvingly cited&nbsp;<a href="http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/do-we-have-a-sociopath-in-the-white-house-2/">Root&rsquo;s most recent column </a>to ask, "<a href="http://algop.org/obama-sociopath/">Is Obama a sociopath?</a>&rdquo;</p>
<p>Elsewhere in Root&rsquo;s article, Armistead will have learned the activist&rsquo;s <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/wayne-allyn-root-accidentally-admits-his-obama-conspiracy-theory-bogus">signature theory</a> that President Obama picked up a secret plan to destroy America while attending Columbia University, while simultaneously <em>never attending Columbia classes</em>.</p>
<p>Armistead is not the first GOP leader to take a shine to Root&rsquo;s unhinged anti-Obama activism: <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/chris-mcdaniel-closes-out-race-campaigning-bryan-fischer-and-wayne-allyn-root"> Root campaigned for Mississippi Tea Party Senate candidate Chris McDaniel </a> this summer, where he speculated that Obama &ldquo;cut his Afro&rdquo; in order to become an anti-American &ldquo;Manchurian candidate.&rdquo;</p>
Miranda BlueAlabamaC4Joel GilbertWayne Allyn RootFighting the RightBill Armistead48070Tue, 26 Aug 2014 12:29:54 -0500Joel GilbertRick Wiles: Maybe Obama Works For The CIA… Or Great Britain… Or Russia… Or Saudi Arabiahttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rick-wiles-maybe-obama-works-cia-or-great-britain-or-russia-or-saudi-arabia
<img class="imagefield imagefield-field_teaser_astory" width="390" height="250" alt="" src="http://www.pfaw.org/sites/default/files/images/a_story_images/obama.jpg?1349226956" />
<p>Rick Wiles is pretty sure that President Obama is a <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/wiles-obama-foreign-plant-leading-overthrow-republic">&ldquo;foreign plant&rdquo;</a> who was put in office by <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/anti-muslim-activists-claim-obama-and-brennan-are-likely-be-secret-muslim-agents">Saudi Arabia</a> in order to destroy America. But maybe it wasn&rsquo;t Saudi Arabia after all, as yesterday on &ldquo;<a href="http://www.trunews.com/wednesday-august-13-2014-mark-armitage-brad-dacus-joel-gilbert-dr-peter-hammond/">Trunews</a>,&rdquo; Wiles and right-wing documentary filmmaker<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/joel-gilbert"> Joel Gilbert </a>wondered if President Obama &mdash; along with his entire family &mdash; secretly works for the CIA, Great Britain, or Russia, or maybe all three, who knows!</p>
<p>&ldquo;This guy, he works for somebody,&rdquo; Wiles insisted.</p>
<p align="center"><iframe frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/163157194&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" width="100%"></iframe></p>
<p>Wiles and Gilbert did agree that progressives view President Obama as God.</p>
<p>&ldquo;When the leader of Heaven on Earth is God on Earth, anything he says is automatically true so that&rsquo;s why he&rsquo;s not questioned by most of the media and most people and you just accept whatever he says and report on it. It&rsquo;s the same as the times of the Soviet Union or Mao, anything they say is simply reported without question, and that was the phenomenon with Obama,&rdquo; Gilbert explained.</p>
<p align="center"><iframe frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/163157111&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" width="100%"></iframe></p>
<p>Later in the broadcast, Wiles returned to his original conspiracy theory that Obama is a secret Islamist: &ldquo;He&rsquo;s clearly been placed here by some mysterious power, I personally have come to the conclusion that he is a covert jihadist, I believe that what this man is practicing is jihad.&rdquo;</p>
<p align="center"><iframe frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/163157274&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" width="100%"></iframe></p>
Brian TashmanC4Joel GilbertRick WilesFighting the Right47950Thu, 14 Aug 2014 14:00:04 -0500Joel GilbertJoel Gilbert Unveils New Movie Depicting Obama As A Communist Wizard Of Ozhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/joel-gilbert-unveils-new-movie-depicting-obama-communist-wizard-oz
<p>Right-wing activist Joel Gilbert is out with another &ldquo;documentary&rdquo; that portrays President Obama as a &ldquo;real life Wizard of Oz&rdquo; bent on ushering in communism through welfare programs and immigration. The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YgPWK-rkZE">trailer</a> for &ldquo;There&rsquo;s No Place Like Utopia&rdquo; features interviews with conservative pundits like&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/david-horowitz">David Horowitz</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/jerome-corsi">Jerome Corsi</a> and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/jack-cashill">Jack Cashill</a>.</p>
<p align="center"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.pfaw.org//www.youtube.com/embed/4YgPWK-rkZE" width="560"></iframe></p>
<p>Gilbert&rsquo;s previous movie, &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/alabama-gop-chairman-promotes-fringe-birther-movie-calls-it-factual-and-frightening">Dreams From My Real Father</a>,&rdquo; alleged that Obama&rsquo;s father is labor activist Frank Marshall Davis, which he believes the president has tried to cover up by getting a <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/joel-gilbert-obama-got-nose-job-hide-resemblance-frank-marshall-davis">nose job</a>. Gilbert has also speculated that <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/joel-gilbert-speculates-obama-may-have-been-behind-aurora-shooting"> Obama orchestrated the Aurora movie theater shooting</a>, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/joel-gilbert-claims-obama-stole-election-nsa-data-letting-disabled-people-vote"> stole the 2012 presidential election </a> and wears a <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/dreams-my-real-father-director-s-new-project-obama-s-secret-muslim-wedding-ring"> secret Muslim wedding ring </a> (which you can see <a href="http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/weddingring.asp">here</a>).</p>
<p>As WND <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2014/05/look-who-plays-wizard-of-oz-in-new-film/#cWxWfr3VdWRY2DF1.99">reports</a>, Gilbert has put together quite the expos&eacute;:</p>
<blockquote>
In the film, Gilbert explores many serious social, political and economic questions, including:<br />
<br />
&bull; Why Barack Obama is the real life Wizard of Oz;<br />
&bull; How the roots of the progressive agenda represent utopia on earth;<br />
&bull; How political correctness is silencing American free speech;<br />
&bull; Why the Democratic Party wants Americans dependent on government;<br />
&bull; Why Peggy Joseph, the Florida voter who in 2008 claimed Obama would pay for her gas and mortgage now believes Obama is a fraud;<br />
&bull; Whether or not a &ldquo;vast left wing conspiracy&rdquo; exist in America today;<br />
&bull; Why Chicago and Newark could become the new Detroit;<br />
&bull; Why African Americans are against amnesty for illegals.<br />
<br />
Gilbert, in his cross-country quest, asks the audience to answer the fundamental questions of whether or not &ldquo;the progressive hopes for a utopia on earth are a real destination for the future of America, or does the true path to happiness still remain faith, family and hard work back home in Kansas?&rdquo;<br />
<br />
In the end, Gilbert rejects progressive utopia and embraces traditional American values as the best choice for the future.</blockquote>
Brian TashmanC4Jack CashillJerome CorsiJoel GilbertDavid Horowitz Fighting the Right46844Wed, 14 May 2014 12:10:49 -0500Joel GilbertJoel Gilbert Claims Obama Stole Election With NSA Data, Letting Disabled People Votehttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/joel-gilbert-claims-obama-stole-election-nsa-data-letting-disabled-people-vote
<img class="imagefield imagefield-field_teaser_astory" width="390" height="250" alt="" src="http://www.pfaw.org/sites/default/files/images/a_story_images/white-house.jpg?1349226956" />
<p>Conspiracy theorist and filmmaker Joel Gilbert did his best to win the 2012 presidential election for Mitt Romney by sending <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/alabama-gop-chairman-promotes-fringe-birther-movie-calls-it-factual-and-frightening">millions of</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/joel-gilbert-swings-florida-voter">swing state households</a> copies of his movie, <em>Dreams From My Real Father</em>, which alleges that President Obama is hiding secret communist ancestry. But his plan didn&rsquo;t work, and Gilbert has a pretty good idea as to why.<br />
<br />
In an <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2013/07/boyles-returns-to-air-with-focus-on-obamas-real-father/">interview</a> with Denver radio host Peter Boyles this week, Gilbert explained his theory that the Obama campaign&rsquo;s <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/07/tech/web/obama-campaign-tech-team">renowned voter database</a> was based on secret NSA data. This is the only possible explanation, Gilbert says, because &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think they Googled everybody in the country.&rdquo;<br />
<br />
He then explained that President Obama and the First Lady&rsquo;s decision to <a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-10-25/business/chi-obama-briefly-in-town-to-cast-early-ballot-20121025_1_rallies-in-battleground-states-election-day-vote-republican-challenger-mitt-romney">cast early votes</a> was in fact a &ldquo;signal to their followers&rdquo; to commit voter fraud. &ldquo;I think a large percentage of those on absentee voted again on Election Day,&rdquo; Gilbert said, estimating that these double-voting Obama supporters made up as much as 25 percent of the electorate.<br />
<br />
&ldquo;Romney actually won the election on Election Day,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;But because they had stacked the vote through absentee ballots, through dead people, homeless, disabled people, people voting two, three times, I believe that&rsquo;s how they knew they would win the election.&rdquo;<br />
<br />
It&rsquo;s unclear if Gilbert knows that while dead people aren&rsquo;t allowed to vote, the homeless and disabled are.</p>
<p align="center"><iframe frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F100648968" width="100%"></iframe></p>
<blockquote>
<p><br />
<strong>Gilbert:</strong> Obama could have used the NSA. Don&rsquo;t forget, there was that incredible database that the Obama campaign used that had all these details on everybody, and they were able to have this amazing, I don&rsquo;t think they Googled everybody in the country to create a database. I have to assume that the Obama campaign used the NSA data to categorize and reach out to a large group of potential voters.<br />
<br />
&hellip;<br />
<br />
<strong>Gilbert:</strong> A lot of it has to do with voter fraud, it has to do with manipulating the system. They were very confident that they would win this last election.<br />
<br />
<strong>Boyles:</strong> Did Barack Obama vote or not vote? I&rsquo;ve read different theories that he didn&rsquo;t vote.<br />
<br />
<strong>Gilbert:</strong> Well, exactly. For the first time ever&hellip; Usually you see a candidate, the president of the United States, you see him voting on Election Day. First time ever, and this revealed their game plan, Michelle voted two months an advance on the absentee ballot, and this was their game, Obama voted a week in advance on the early voting.<br />
<br />
<strong>Boyles: </strong>Yes, because usually when I was a kid, you saw Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, you saw Jack Kennedy in Hyannis&hellip;<br />
<br />
<strong>Gilbert:</strong> Well, absolutely, you saw Bush, Clinton. Going to vote is part of the ritual. This was their game plan, was to stack the election through absentee and early voting. So, Michelle said, &lsquo;I&rsquo;m too busy, I&rsquo;m a single mother, so I voted early.&rsquo; In reality, this was a signal to their followers, for everybody to get an absentee ballot. And I think a large percentage of those on absentee voted again on Election Day.<br />
<br />
<strong>Boyles:</strong> You do?<br />
<br />
<strong>Gilbert:</strong> Absolutely. So in reality, about 25 percent of the electorate voted prior to Election Day. Romney actually won the election on Election Day. But because they had stacked the vote through absentee ballots, through dead people, homeless, disabled people, people voting two, three times, I believe that&rsquo;s how they knew they would win the election, along with the fact that they knew they had suppressed the organizing of the conservatives through the IRS.</p>
</blockquote>
Miranda BlueC4Joel GilbertFighting the Right43637Thu, 11 Jul 2013 15:52:36 -0500Joel GilbertReince Priebus, Ron Johnson to Headline Dinner Hosted by Birther Alabama GOP Chairhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/reince-priebus-ron-johnson-headline-dinner-hosted-birther-alabama-gop-chair
<img class="imagefield imagefield-field_teaser_astory" width="390" height="250" alt="" src="http://www.pfaw.org/sites/default/files/images/a_story_images/3D_elephant_A.jpg?1330022095" />
<p>Sen. Rand Paul isn&rsquo;t the only prominent Republican <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rand-pauls-travels-birthers">hanging out with birthers</a> these days. Next month, RNC chairman Reince Preibus and Wisconson Sen. Ron Johnson will travel to Alabama to <a href="http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2013/01/guess_whos_coming_to_dinner_or.html">headline a dinner</a> hosted by state GOP chairman Bill Armistead. Armistead raised eyebrows last year when he <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/alabama-gop-chairman-promotes-fringe-birther-movie-calls-it-factual-and-frightening">publicly recommended</a> &ldquo;Dreams From My Real Father,&rdquo; a &ldquo;documentary&rdquo; that promotes the alternate birther theory that President Obama somehow inherited a Marxist worldview from his &ldquo;real father&rdquo; Frank Marshall Davis. Somewhat unbelievably, Armistead stated that he had &ldquo;verified that it is factual, all of it.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Interestingly, Priebus and Johnson will be stepping into the middle of a fight over whether Armistead will keep his job. (He faces a challenger backed by his longtime rival, state House Speaker Mike Hubbard.) Charles Dean at the <em>Birmingham News</em> <a href="http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2013/01/guess_whos_coming_to_dinner_or.html">reports</a> that Priebus might be attending as a political favored to Armistead:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Some saw Tuesday's late announcement by Armistead that Priebus had accepted the invitation to attend the dinner as a sign that maybe Armistead had convinced the GOP national party chairman to support him.</p>
<p>Late last week Armistead announced that he was supporting Priebus for a second term as Republican Party Chairman. So far Priebus is unopposed for a second term but rumors have persisted for months that a challenger might step up.</p>
</blockquote>
<p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> The RNC tells the<em> Birmingham News</em> that Priebus is<a href="http://blog.al.com/wire/2013/01/republican_party_chairman_prie.html"> not taking sides</a> in the party chairmanship race.</p>
Miranda BlueBarack ObamaAlabamaBirtherC4Frank Marshall DavisJoel GilbertReince Priebusrepublican national committee ron johnsonWisconsinFighting the RightBill Armistead41959Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:18:14 -0500Joel GilbertJoel Gilbert Faults Karl Rove For Focusing on Economy Rather Than Obama's 'Real Father'http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/joel-gilbert-faults-karl-rove-focusing-economy-rather-obama-s-real-father
<p>Karl Rove, whose American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS spent hundreds of millions of dollars attacking President Obama&rsquo;s economic record without avail, has become something of a punching bag for a defeated and embittered Religious Right. Shortly after the election, Gary Bauer <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bauer-gop-won-emphasized-marriage-abortion">faulted</a> Rove for focusing on the economy rather than on abortion rights and marriage equality and radio host Janet Mefferd expressed concern that &ldquo;we didn&rsquo;t even talk much about radical Islam.&rdquo; A few days later, the American Family Association&rsquo;s Sandy Rios even <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rios-tragic-result-gay-rights-movement-gay-community-itself">accused </a>Rove of moderating the GOP&rsquo;s previous focus on anti-gay policies.<br />
<br />
Today, Joel Gilbert, director of the widely distributed <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/alabama-gop-chairman-promotes-fringe-birther-movie-calls-it-factual-and-frightening">anti-Obama movie</a> &ldquo;Dreams From My Real Father,&rdquo; joined the pile-on. In an <a href="http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/kincaid/121203">interview</a> with Renew America&rsquo;s Cliff Kincaid, Gilbert argued that Rove made a fatal mistake by focusing his attacks on the economy rather than on Gilbert&rsquo;s theory that the president&rsquo;s real father was communist organizer Frank Marshall Davis. "If Republicans had made Obama's Marxist agenda and personal background the main issues of the campaign, Americans would have had a much clearer understanding of the choice between American values and Marxism,&rdquo; Gilbert said.</p>
<blockquote>
<p><br />
"I heard complaints from Rove's conservative donors four weeks in advance of the election," filmmaker Joel Gilbert told Accuracy in Media. "They kept asking, 'where is the money being spent?'" The questions intensified after Obama's victory and the Democrats achieved a larger 55-45 majority in the Senate.</p>
<p>Gilbert, who directed the documentary "Dreams from My Real Father," about Obama's Marxist roots, notes that Rove had argued to conservative donors that the winning strategy for Republicans was to place ads focusing on the poor economy.</p>
<p>Gilbert's film, which was distributed to millions of voters and argued that Obama's real biological and ideological father was Communist Party USA propagandist Frank Marshall Davis, attempted to expose Obama's character and background. But Rove, Romney and Republican leaders did not want to raise these issues. In fact, Rove had argued that calling Obama a socialist or left-winger would backfire.</p>
<p>Gilbert argued that Obama was a pop-culture phenomenon with a high "likability" factor and that "Voters perceived Obama as a nice man with an inspiring family story." The right strategy, he says, was to expose Obama's Marxist views, the role of Frank Marshall Davis in molding Obama's political philosophy, and Obama's questionable statements about his own upbringing.</p>
<p>Gilbert says, "If Republicans had made Obama's Marxist agenda and personal background the main issues of the campaign, Americans would have had a much clearer understanding of the choice between American values and Marxism."</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Gilbert&rsquo;s film, meanwhile, is on record as having<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/joel-gilbert-scoops-nyt-pulitzer-his-movie-continues-turn-swing-voters"> &ldquo;revolted&rdquo;</a> focus groups of swing voters and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/joel-gilbert-swings-florida-voter">disgusted </a>at least one Florida voter so much that he decided to vote for the president.</p>Miranda BlueCliff Kincaid Barack ObamaBirtherC4Gary BauerJanet MefferdJoel GilbertKarl Rove Renew America Fighting the Right41669Tue, 04 Dec 2012 11:42:30 -0500Joel GilbertJoel Gilbert: Obama Got Nose Job to Hide Resemblance to Frank Marshall Davishttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/joel-gilbert-obama-got-nose-job-hide-resemblance-frank-marshall-davis
<p>Filmmaker, Bob Dylan enthusiast, and all-purpose conspiracy theorist Joel Gilbert has been getting plenty of attention recently for his film, &ldquo;Dreams From My Real Father,&rdquo;which presents his theory that President Obama&rsquo;s real father was Communist organizer Frank Marshall Davis, who<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/joel-gilbert-change-code-word-revolution-end-capitalism"> groomed the president </a>from birth to lead a &ldquo;revolution to end capitalism.&rdquo; Gilbert has taken advantage of an undisclosed source of funds to send copies of his movie to 4 million swing-state households, where it has been met with decidedly mixed reviews. Gilbert&rsquo;s film has earned effusive praise from the <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/alabama-gop-chairman-promotes-fringe-birther-movie-calls-it-factual-and-frightening">chairman of the Alabama Republican Party</a> and <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/10/25/dynamite-foxs-crowley-endorses-film-alleging-ob/190904">Fox News&rsquo; Monica Crowley</a>, but was panned by a Republican focus group, which found it<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/joel-gilbert-scoops-nyt-pulitzer-his-movie-continues-turn-swing-voters"> &ldquo;revolting.&rdquo; </a>A public screening of the film organized by a county commissioner in Texas has <a href="http://galvestondailynews.com/story/357206">drawn promises of protests</a>.<br />
<br />
In the midst of this hubbub, though, Gilbert hasn&rsquo;t neglected his continuing research into the president&rsquo;s history. This summer, he speculated to Alex Jones that the Obama administration<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/joel-gilbert-speculates-obama-may-have-been-behind-aurora-shooting"> might have been behind the Aurora movie theater shooting</a>. Earlier this month, he put on his &ldquo;expert in Islamic history&rdquo; &nbsp;hat to uncover a secret <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/dreams-my-real-father-director-s-new-project-obama-s-secret-muslim-wedding-ring">&ldquo;Islamic inscription&rdquo; </a>on the president&rsquo;s wedding ring. And today, he<a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/yet-another-secret-about-obamas-life/"> drops another bombshell</a> to World Net Daily&rsquo;s Jerome Corsi: the president got a nose job (a.k.a. "facial forgery") because he was &ldquo;concerned he was looking too much like Frank Marshall Davis as he got older.&rdquo;</p>
<blockquote>
<p><br />
Filmmaker Joel Gilbert contends President Obama has altered his facial profile for the national stage of American politics, citing two nationally known cosmetic surgery experts he consulted who concluded Obama had a &ldquo;nose job.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;It appears Obama had some aesthetic refinement,&rdquo; said plastic surgeon J. David Holcolm.<br />
<br />
&hellip;<br />
<br />
&ldquo;Obama has gone to great lengths to obscure his past,&rdquo; Gilbert said. &ldquo;Now, in addition to the alleged document forgery and photographic forgery by Obama to hide his true identity, we now have evidence of facial forgery.&rdquo;<br />
<br />
&hellip;<br />
<br />
Gilbert suspects Obama had the surgery because he was &ldquo;concerned he was looking too much like Frank Marshall Davis as he got older.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think it was a coincidence that Obama chose to undergo a rhinoplasty before running for U.S. Senate and facing the national spotlight,&rdquo; Gilbert said. &ldquo;If Obama was identified as Davis&rsquo; son, it would connect the Marxist dots of Obama&rsquo;s entire life journey.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Gilbert said Obama &ldquo;needed the Kenyan father fairy tale to misdirect the public away from the fact that he is a red diaper baby, the child of a Communist Party USA propagandist and Soviet agent.&rdquo;</p>
</blockquote>
<p>As evidence, Gilbert presents a somewhat unconvincing<a href="http://obamasrealfather.com/breaking_news007/"> side-by-side photograph array</a>.</p>Miranda BlueBirtherC4Frank Marshall DavisJoel GilbertMonica CrowleyFighting the RightBill Armistead41355Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:25:52 -0500Joel GilbertJoel Gilbert Scoops NYT for Pulitzer but his Movie Continues to Turn Off Swing Votershttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/joel-gilbert-scoops-nyt-pulitzer-his-movie-continues-turn-swing-voters
<p><em>The</em> <em>New York Times </em>today <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/us/politics/strident-anti-obama-messages-flood-key-states.html?_r=0">offers up</a> the wide distribution of Joel Gilbert&rsquo;s <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/alabama-gop-chairman-promotes-fringe-birther-movie-calls-it-factual-and-frightening">&ldquo;Dreams From My Real Father&rdquo; </a>as a case study in &ldquo;how secretive forces outside the presidential campaigns can sweep into battleground states days before the election.&rdquo;</p>
<p>According to the<em> Times</em>, Republican strategist Frank Luntz, at the behest of unnamed conservative activists, focus-group tested Gilbert&rsquo;s film this summer, along with Dinesh D&rsquo;Souza&rsquo;s &ldquo;2016&rdquo; and <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/trending/2012/09/17/citizens_united_s_anti_obama_film_the_hope_and_the_change_to_air_on_tv_.html">&ldquo;The Hope and Change,&rdquo;</a> a Citizens United joint featuring interviews with disaffected Obama supporters.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>&ldquo;The Hope and the Change,&rdquo; directed by Stephen K. Bannon and produced by Citizens United, the conservative political advocacy group, tested highest with focus groups and is running on local cable stations. It was shown here just before Monday&rsquo;s debate.</p>
<p>Many conservatives also loved Mr. D&rsquo;Souza&rsquo;s film and wanted it to have wider distribution. It tested poorly, however, and Mr. Luntz warned his clients that it could undermine their cause.</p>
<p><strong>Focus groups were revolted by &ldquo;Dreams From My Real Father,&rdquo; with its conspiracy theory paranoia and dubious evidence.</strong> It compares photos of the president and Mr. Davis, noting that they have similar noses and freckles. It also purports to have uncovered nude photos of Mr. Obama&rsquo;s mother in a bondage magazine.</p>
<p><strong>Mr. Luntz&rsquo;s clients were not surprised. Their thinking was, &ldquo;I want to know if it&rsquo;s as bad as I think it is,&rdquo; Mr. Luntz said.</strong></p>
</blockquote>
<p>The opinion of Luntz&rsquo;s focus groups mirrors that of <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/joel-gilbert-swings-florida-voter">at least one Florida voter </a>who got Gilbert&rsquo;s movie in the mail and found it so disgusting he decided to vote for Obama.</p>
<p>Gilbert, for his part, remains convinced that he will come out with the upper hand, and perhaps beat out <em>The</em>&nbsp;<em>New York Times</em> for a Pulitzer:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Mr. Gilbert will not say where he received the money to distribute his movie &mdash; he claims to have sent out four million copies. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a private company, so we don&rsquo;t disclose who&rsquo;s part of it,&rdquo; he said. <strong>He also blamed the mainstream media for not looking deeper into the story he uncovered, telling <em>The New York Times</em>, &ldquo;I hope you&rsquo;re not angry or jealous that I beat you to it and might win the Pulitzer Prize.&rdquo;</strong></p>
</blockquote>Miranda BlueBarack ObamaBirtherC4frank luntzFrank Marshall DavisJoel GilbertFighting the Right41341Wed, 24 Oct 2012 11:41:09 -0500Joel GilbertJoel Gilbert Swings a Florida Voterhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/joel-gilbert-swings-florida-voter
<p>Papers in Florida have been <a href="http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-10-18/news/os-obama-dvd-voters-20121018_1_barack-obama-ann-dunham-obama-biographer-david-maraniss">reporting</a> <a href="http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/stateroundup/florida-democrat-chairman-rod-smith-wont-run-for-governor/1257608">recently</a> on a curious DVD that has been turning up in mailboxes across the state. The video is none other than Joel Gilbert&rsquo;s <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/alabama-gop-chairman-promotes-fringe-birther-movie-calls-it-factual-and-frightening">&ldquo;Dreams From My Real Father,</a>&rdquo; a &ldquo;documentary&rdquo; narrated by a fictional Barack Obama claiming that Obama&rsquo;s mother&rsquo;s marriage to Barack Obama Sr. was a sham meant to cover up her relationship with labor activist and communist organizer Frank Marshall Davis, the president's "real father." Gilbert previously boasted that he sent the DVD to a million households across Ohio, but declines to divulge who is paying for his marketing campaign.<br />
<br />
On Friday, <a href="http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/region_martin_county/stuart/treasure-coast-residents-upset-by-political-dvd#ixzz2A2cVBH45">Palm Beach&rsquo;s WPTV reported</a> that Gilbert&rsquo;s film has managed to swing at least one Florida voter.</p>
<p align="center"><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" align="middle" data="http://www.wptv.com/video_player/swf/EndPlayVideoPlayer_v1_3_FP10_2.swf?v=073012_0" width="320" height="272">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.wptv.com/video_player/swf/EndPlayVideoPlayer_v1_3_FP10_2.swf?v=073012_0" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" />
<param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" />
<param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" />
<param name="allownetworking" value="all" />
<param name="wmode" value="opaque" />
<param name="flashvars" value="src=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia2.wptv.com%2Fvideo%2Fcriticalmedia%2F2012%2F10%2F20%2FDreams_from_my_real_fa3d659924-a1e8-46a5-a04c-b7324099297c.mp4&plugin_vast=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wptv.com%2Fvideo_player%2Fswf%2Fplugins%2FPluginEPAdIMA_v1_3_FP10_2.swf&vast_ads=true&vast_preRoll=http%3A%2F%2Fad.doubleclick.net%2Fpfadx%2Fssp.wptv%2Fnews%2Fregion_martin_county%2Fstuart%2Fdetail%3Bdcmt%3Dtext%2Fxml%3Bsz%3D1x1000%3Bpos%3Dnative%3Bloc%3D%25loc%25%3Btile%3D3%3Bfname%3Dtreasure-coast-residents-upset-by-political-dvd%3Bord%3D534744417760521150%3Frand%3D%25rand%25&vast_postRoll=http%3A%2F%2Fad.doubleclick.net%2Fpfadx%2Fssp.wptv%2Fnews%2Fregion_martin_county%2Fstuart%2Fdetail%3Bdcmt%3Dtext%2Fxml%3Bsz%3D3x1000%3Bpos%3Dnative%3Bloc%3D%25loc%25%3Btile%3D3%3Bfname%3Dtreasure-coast-residents-upset-by-political-dvd%3Bord%3D534744417760521150%3Frand%3D%25rand%25&vast_overlay=http%3A%2F%2Fad.doubleclick.net%2Fpfadx%2Fssp.wptv%2Fnews%2Fregion_martin_county%2Fstuart%2Fdetail%3Bdcmt%3Dtext%2Fxml%3Bsz%3D320x40%3Bpos%3Dnative%3Bloc%3D%25loc%25%3Btile%3D3%3Bfname%3Dtreasure-coast-residents-upset-by-political-dvd%3Bord%3D534744417760521150%3Frand%3D%25rand%25&plugin_omniture=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wptv.com%2Fvideo_player%2Fswf%2Fplugins%2FPluginEndPlayOmniture_v1_3_FP10_2.swf&omniture_vidSegment=M&omniture_vidContent=video&omniture_debugTracking=false&omniture_account=ewstvwptv&omniture_visitorNamespace=ewstv&omniture_trackingServer=ewstv.112.2o7.net&omniture_trackingServerSecure=ewstv.102.122.2o7.net&omniture_vidID=0&omniture_id=video_player1&epD=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.wcpo.com%2F&showMenu=true&shareUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wptv.com%2Fdpp%2Fnews%2Fregion_martin_county%2Fstuart%2Ftreasure-coast-residents-upset-by-political-dvd%23ixzz2A2cVBH45&shareTitle=Treasure%20Coast%20residents%20upset%20by%20political%20DVD&poster=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia2.wptv.com%2F%2Fphoto%2F2012%2F10%2F19%2FDreams_from_my_real_fa3d659924-a1e8-46a5-a04c-b7324099297c0000_20121019231708_640_480.JPG&embed=true&toggleVideoCode=3&emailAction=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wptv.com%2Femailaction&vW=320&vH=240&cntrlH=32" /></object></p>
<blockquote>
<p>When Ron and Judy Cindrick received what was billed as "a must-watch DVD" in their mailbox, they decided to see what "Dreams from My Real Father" was all about.</p>
<p>Judy said what she saw shocked her.<br />
<br />
"I was absolutely appalled when I began to watch this and they began to show pictures of Barack Obama's mother, his supposed mother, naked," she said.<br />
<br />
Ron said watching the pseudo-documentary turns his stomach, and his vote. He believes the Obama conspiracy-type film has to be politically motivated.<br />
<br />
<strong>"I am a registered Republican, and as of today, I will vote for Barack Obama after receiving this DVD,"</strong> said Ron.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>The<a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/topoftheticket/la-na-tt-right-wing-lies-20121018,0,1316436.story"><em> Los Angeles Times</em> reports</a> that the film has also been showing up in mailboxes in Nevada and New Hampshire. In an <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5ux7bB4bdQ">interview with a Florida radio show </a>on Saturday, Gilbert claimed a version of the film on Netflix Instant Play has been watched by 200,000 people.</p>Miranda BlueBarack ObamaBirtherC4FloridaFrank Marshall DavisJoel GilbertFighting the Right41316Mon, 22 Oct 2012 10:55:21 -0500Joel GilbertKengor: ‘I Feel Bad for Obama’ Because He Didn’t Have a ‘Wholesome, Norman Rockwell Upbringing’http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/kengor-i-feel-bad-obama-because-he-didn-t-have-wholesome-norman-rockwell-upbringing
<p>Historian Paul Kengor has been doing a circuit of right-wing talk shows, promoting his new book, &ldquo;The Communist&rdquo; which ties President Obama to a childhood family friend, the labor activist and writer Frank Marshall Davis. Although Kengor <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/kengor-obama-change-platform-appeared-almost-verbatim-frank-marshall-davis-column">refuses to comment</a> on filmmaker Joel Gilbert&rsquo;s <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/alabama-gop-chairman-promotes-fringe-birther-movie-calls-it-factual-and-frightening">hypothesis</a> that Davis is actually the president&rsquo;s biological father, he argues that a<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/kengor-obama-change-platform-appeared-almost-verbatim-frank-marshall-davis-column"> direct line</a>&nbsp;can be drawn&nbsp;between Davis&rsquo; Communist writings and the president&rsquo;s support of universal health care, advocacy for the middle class, and even his &ldquo;Change&rdquo; and &ldquo;Forward&rdquo; slogans.</p>
<p>In an<a href="http://www.janetmefferdpremium.com/2012/10/10/janet-mefferd-radio-show-20121010-hr-2/"> interview</a> with Janet Mefferd this week, Kengor painted Davis as a sinister and strange influence on the young Obama&rsquo;s life. Echoing <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/huckabee-and-fischer-agree-obamas-childhood-instilled-fundamentally-anti-american-ideas-him">Mike Huckabee&rsquo;s accusation</a> that the president has a &ldquo;different worldview&rdquo; because he grew up with &ldquo;madrassas&rdquo; rather than &ldquo;going to Boy Scouts,&rdquo; Kengor marveled that Obama&rsquo;s grandfather chose Davis as a mentor for his grandson rather than &ldquo;a Boy Scout troop master, a little league coach.&rdquo; Not only that, but Obama&rsquo;s grandfather and Davis &ldquo;would even smoke dope together.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;So I tell people, I honestly feel bad for Obama. This wasn&rsquo;t exactly a wholesome, Norman Rockwell upbringing,&rdquo; he added.</p>
<p align="center"><embed width="400" height="20" src="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/sites/default/files/mp3/player.swf" bgcolor="undefined" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="file=/sites/default/files/mp3/Mefferd-Kengor-1.mp3"></embed></p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>Kengor:</strong> In 1970, Stanley Dunham was looking for a black male father figure, mentor, role model for his grandson because the father was gone. So, right there, Janet, you or I, we have sons, grandsons, we&rsquo;d probably pick as a mentor a boy scout troop master, a little league coach.</p>
<p><strong>Mefferd: </strong>Yeah, someone upstanding.</p>
<p><strong>Kengor:</strong> I mean, to think that you&rsquo;d pick a card-carrying member of Communist Party USA, called to Washington to testify on his quote-unquote Soviet activities by the Democratic-run Senate Judiciary Committee, is kind of remarkable and kind of revealing.</p>
<p><strong>Mefferd: </strong>Sure.</p>
<p><strong>Kengor:</strong> But that&rsquo;s who Stanley Dunham picked. And Stanley Dunham and Frank Marshall Davis were real close. They&rsquo;d play cards together, Scrabble, drink together. One person named Donna Weatherly Williams, who was there when Dunham introduced Obama to Davis in 1970, says that Davis and Dunham would even smoke dope together.</p>
<p><strong>Mefferd:</strong> Oh boy.</p>
<p><strong>Kengor: </strong>And, I mean, here you&rsquo;ve got, at that point Frank Marshall Davis would have been about 65 years old. So I tell people, I honestly feel bad for Obama. This wasn&rsquo;t exactly a wholesome, Norman Rockwell upbringing.</p>
<p><strong>Mefferd: </strong>No, awfully dysfunctional.</p>
<p><strong>Kengor:</strong> Very dysfunctional, very.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Later, Kengor <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/author-obama-expos-repeats-debunked-churchill-bust-myth-says-churchill-rolled-over-his-grave">revisited the right-wing meme</a> that President Obama somehow hates Winston Churchill because he removed George W. Bush&rsquo;s bust of Churchill when he redecorated the Oval Office. This hatred of Churchill, according to Kengor, could very well have been instilled by a drunken rant of Frank Marshall Davis:</p>
<p align="center"><embed width="400" height="20" src="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/sites/default/files/mp3/player.swf" bgcolor="undefined" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="file=/sites/default/files/mp3/Mefferd-Kengor-2.mp3"></embed></p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>Kengor: </strong>If you would have asked me five years ago, or anybody in America five years ago, name one American who doesn&rsquo;t like Winston Churchill&hellip;</p>
<p><strong>Mefferd:</strong> Now we know!</p>
<p><strong>Kengor: </strong>Nobody, yeah. Then suddenly in January 2009, well we have one: Obama. And now we know of another: Obama&rsquo;s mentor. And actually, I should add, as a Cold War historian, I did know of Americans who didn&rsquo;t like Churchill. It was members of Communist Party USA and the Daily Worker. So Davis was towing the Soviet line, the Communist Party line. Does this mean that Obama doesn&rsquo;t like Churchill because of Davis? I can&rsquo;t say that for sure, but I mean these guys met many times together, at least over a dozen times together, and late evenings. And you know Davis was always very political, always talking about politics, drank a lot, could be very incendiary in his comments. And I&rsquo;m sure that Obama must have heard a few diatribes against Winston Churchill by Frank Marshall Davis.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>&nbsp;</p>Miranda BlueBarack ObamaC4Frank Marshall DavisJoel GilbertPaul KengorFighting the Right41240Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:51:13 -0500Joel GilbertKengor: Obama 'Change' Platform Appeared 'Almost Verbatim' in Frank Marshall Davis Columnhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/kengor-obama-change-platform-appeared-almost-verbatim-frank-marshall-davis-column
<p>Grove City College historian Paul Kengor had the good fortune this year to release<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/author-obama-expos-repeats-debunked-churchill-bust-myth-says-churchill-rolled-over-his-grave"> &ldquo;The Communist,&rdquo; </a>his biography of President Obama&rsquo;s early mentor Frank Marshall Davis, just as director Joel Gilbert started <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/28/with-dreams-from-my-real-father-have-obama-haters-hit-rock-bottom.html">promoting</a> &ldquo;Dreams From My Real Father,&rdquo; a mysteriously well-funded film claiming that Davis was in fact Obama&rsquo;s biological father. Gilbert has not only helped boost interest in Kengor&rsquo;s object of study, he has succeeded in making Kengor by far the most reasonable person on the Right&rsquo;s Frank Marshall Davis beat.<br />
<br />
In an interview with Phyllis Schlafly on Eagle Forum Radio this week, Kengor declined to comment on the veracity of Gilbert&rsquo;s &ldquo;real father&rdquo; hypothesis. But<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/joel-gilbert-change-code-word-revolution-end-capitalism"> like Gilbert</a>, Kengor is convinced that Davis was a bigger influence on Obama&rsquo;s thinking than the mainstream media will admit. One example, he told Schlafly, are Obama&rsquo;s 2008 campaign slogan of &ldquo;Change&rdquo; and his 2012 slogan of &ldquo;Forward,&rdquo; in which he sees &ldquo;remarkable&rdquo; similarities with Davis&rsquo; writing. He points to a 1946 column by Davis which contains &ldquo;almost verbatim the Obama platform for 2008&rdquo;:</p>
<p align="center"><embed width="400" height="20" flashvars="file=/sites/default/files/mp3/Schlafly-Kengor-1.mp3" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" bgcolor="undefined" src="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/sites/default/files/mp3/player.swf"></embed></p>
<blockquote>
<p><br />
<br />
<strong>Schlafly:</strong> I want to be clear about this, Paul. Nobody&rsquo;s saying President Obama is a Communist, but there&rsquo;s no question about the man who had the biggest influence on his life, Frank Marshall Davis. He was a real, honest to goodness Communist who had a membership card issued by the Communist Party. And in those days, a certain number of people actually did that. But today, when you read and hear Obama&rsquo;s speeches, it&rsquo;s kind of like it&rsquo;s an echo of the many things that Frank Marshall Davis wrote in communist publications. What are some of those, and do they remind you of Frank Marshall Davis and you kind of think those are wordings that, goals that kind of hung around in his subconscious for years?<br />
<br />
<strong>Kengor: </strong>They do, Phyllis, they remind me very much so of Frank Marshall Davis. And I have to say, as a scholar, I can&rsquo;t say that, &lsquo;Well, Obama said A and that&rsquo;s because Davis believes in B.&rsquo; <strong>But, well, you look at these things and they&rsquo;re remarkably similar.</strong> The constant use of class warfare, of class rhetoric. Some of these seem to be beyond the sort of standard similarities that you would see, just because Obama and Davis are both on the left. I&rsquo;ll give you just another example. Obama, of course, ran under the mantra of &lsquo;Change&rsquo; in 2008, &lsquo;Hope and Change.&rsquo; Well, the very first column that Frank Marshall Davis wrote for the Chicago Star&hellip;<br />
<br />
<strong>Schlafly: </strong>A Communist paper.</p>
<p><strong>Kengor: </strong>Yes, a Communist paper. This is the kick-off column, and he wrote a piece, this was July 6, 1946, and it was called &ldquo;Those Radicals of &rsquo;76.&rdquo; <strong>And in that column, Frank Marshall Davis talked about the importance of advancing, quote, &lsquo;fundamental change,&rsquo; unquote, in America. America needs to be &lsquo;transformed through fundamental changed.&rsquo; And that&rsquo;s almost verbatim the Obama platform for 2008. And Obama&rsquo;s 2012 campaign slogan, which is simply, &lsquo;Forward,&rsquo; I found on the front page of the Chicago Star, very top, right below the masthead, Frank Marshall Davis using that same slogan.</strong> One of them says, &lsquo;Bravely Forward!&rdquo; exclamation mark. So, could this just be a coincidence? Yeah, sure I guess it&rsquo;s possible that it&rsquo;s a coincidence. But you look at all the long list and the rhetoric and you look at that and you say, &lsquo;Well, it seems like it might be more than just a coincidence.&rsquo;</p>
</blockquote>Miranda BlueBarack ObamaC4Frank Marshall DavisJoel GilbertPaul KengorFighting the Right41216Wed, 10 Oct 2012 12:58:25 -0500Joel Gilbert‘Dreams From My Real Father’ Director’s New Project: Obama’s Secret Muslim Wedding Ringhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/dreams-my-real-father-director-s-new-project-obama-s-secret-muslim-wedding-ring
<p>WorldNetDaily&rsquo;s intrepid birther Jerome Corsi is out with a new report today,<a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/obamas-ring-there-is-no-god-but-allah/"> in which he uncovers</a> that President Obama&rsquo;s wedding band is actually inscribed with the Arabic for &ldquo;There is no god except Allah.&rdquo;<br />
<br />
Corsi&rsquo;s source for this revelation? None other than <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/joel-gilbert-speculates-obama-may-have-been-behind-aurora-shooting">all-purpose anti-Obama conspiracy theorist </a>Joel Gilbert. Gilbert has recently achieved <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/28/with-dreams-from-my-real-father-have-obama-haters-hit-rock-bottom.html">some success</a> with his film &ldquo;Dreams From My Real Father,&rdquo; in which he claims that the president&rsquo;s real father was labor activist and communist organizer Frank Marshall Davis. The film is currently being sent to households around Ohio, with the help of an undisclosed source of funding, and recently received the <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/alabama-gop-chairman-promotes-fringe-birther-movie-calls-it-factual-and-frightening">enthusiastic endorsement of the chairman of the Alabama Republican Party</a>. Gilbert, apparently, believes that Obama is<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/joel-gilbert-change-code-word-revolution-end-capitalism"> not only a hard-core Marxist</a>, but also a secret Muslim:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><br />
"Dreams from My Real Father&rdquo; producer Joel Gilbert, an Arabic speaker and an expert on the Middle East, was the first to conclude that Obama&rsquo;s ring, reportedly from Indonesia, bore an Islamic inscription<br />
<br />
&hellip;<br />
<br />
Filmmaker Joel Gilbert, an expert on Islamic history, noted Obama wore the ring during his high-profile speech in Cairo on June 4, 2009, in the first months of his presidency.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Now we have a new context for what Obama meant when he told the Islamic audience in Cairo that he has &lsquo;known Islam on three continents,&rdquo; Gilbert said. &ldquo;He also told the Cairo audience that he considered it part of his responsibility as president of the United States &lsquo;to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.&rsquo; All religious Muslims are by definition required to defend Islam.&rdquo;</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Before he turned his attention to the president&rsquo;s supposed Communist genetics, Gilbert directed a number of <a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2012/09/dylanology_the_birther_conspiracy.php">Bob Dylan documentaries</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq8Y2JZbwyY">&ldquo;Atomic Jihad,&rdquo; </a>a film accusing President Obama of appeasing Iran.</p>
<p>Corsi has previously speculated that the same ring, which the president has been pictured wearing before his marriage to Michelle Obama, is proof that he was<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/scott-lively-pushes-claim-obama-was-once-married-man"> once married to his male Pakistani roommate</a>.</p>Miranda BlueBarack ObamaBirtherC4Frank Marshall DavisIslamJerome CorsiJoel GilbertWorldNetDaily Fighting the Right41213Wed, 10 Oct 2012 10:57:09 -0500Joel GilbertMichelle Obama is an 'Anti-American Extremist,' Says Popular Birther Filmmakerhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/michelle-obama-anti-american-extremist-says-popular-birther-filmmaker
<p>We ordinarily wouldn&rsquo;t really pay attention to Joel Gilbert, a <a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2012/09/dylanology_the_birther_conspiracy.php">Bob Dylan enthusiast </a>who also dabbles in anti-Obama conspiracy theories, most recently making a<a href="http://www.obamasrealfather.com/"> film </a>that alleges that the president&rsquo;s real father is labor activist and communist party organizer Frank Marshall Davis.<br />
<br />
But when Bill Armistead, the chairman of the Alabama Republican Party, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/alabama-gop-chairman-promotes-fringe-birther-movie-calls-it-factual-and-frightening">started promoting Gilbert&rsquo;s movie</a>, &ldquo;Dreams from My Real Father,&rdquo; and when news surfaced that Gilbert was sending thousands of copies of his movie gratis to households in swing states and that <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/28/with-dreams-from-my-real-father-have-obama-haters-hit-rock-bottom.html">conservative groups were holding showings</a>, we thought we should start keeping track of him.<br />
<br />
Gilbert has a spiel that he repeats pretty much word for word on media appearances, but once in a while he comes up with something new (for instance when he said that the Aurora movie theater shooting could very well have been<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/joel-gilbert-speculates-obama-may-have-been-behind-aurora-shooting"> an Obama administration inside job</a>).<br />
<br />
In an <a href="http://stevedeace.com/headline/deace-show-podcast-09-27-12/">interview with Iowa radio host Steve Deace </a>yesterday, Gilbert asserted that the president is &ldquo;comfortable around anti-American extremists&rdquo; &ndash; including Michelle Obama. He also elaborated on his theory that Obama is &ldquo;attempting to turn the entire United States into this one-party system by doubling the food stamp rolls, putting everybody on government healthcare, making illegals legal.&rdquo;</p>
<p align="center"><embed width="400" height="20" src="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/sites/default/files/mp3/player.swf" bgcolor="undefined" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="file=/sites/default/files/mp3/Gilbert-Deace-2.mp3"></embed></p>
<blockquote>
<p>Obama is comfortable around anti-American extremists, people that are anti-American &ndash; Bill Ayers, Michelle Obama, dare I say. These are the people that he feels comfortable with and they&rsquo;re comfortable with him. Obama&rsquo;s policies mirror this classic Marxist indoctrination that he received and reinforced his entire life by joining the Midwest Academy, his relationship with Bill Ayers and his family for 25, 30 years, as well as Bernadine Dorn, and this entire rat&rsquo;s nest of Marxist ideologues that came out of Chicago and transformed their, took their little one-party ideology from Chicago and are attempting to turn the entire United States into this one-party system by doubling the food stamp rolls, putting everybody on government healthcare, making illegals legal. Their intent, it&rsquo;s all about keeping power and creating a one-party state that they can never have to give up power.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>&nbsp;</p>Miranda BlueBarack ObamaBirtherC4Frank Marshall DavisJoel GilbertMichelle ObamaFighting the RightBill Armistead41128Fri, 28 Sep 2012 12:36:01 -0500Joel GilbertJoel Gilbert: ‘”Change” is a Code Word for a Revolution to End Capitalism’http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/joel-gilbert-change-code-word-revolution-end-capitalism
<p>Joel Gilbert, the filmmaker behind the theory that President Obama inherited a Marxist worldview from his &ldquo;real father&rdquo; Frank Marshall Davis &ndash; a theory <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/alabama-gop-chairman-promotes-fringe-birther-movie-calls-it-factual-and-frightening">adopted this week by the chairman of the Alabama Republican Party</a> -- spoke last month with right-wing radio host Michael Savage.</p>
<p>Gilbert<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyLMvAhAhxE"> told Savag</a>e that Obama&rsquo;s 2008 &ldquo;Change&rdquo; slogan was actually &ldquo;a code word for a revolution to end capitalism&rdquo; and assured listeners that by the end of his second term, the president will &ldquo;achieve what he wants, which is to make America irreversibly socialist.&rdquo; Part of this transformation, Gilbert said, is that &ldquo;the middle class&rsquo; health care is going to be given away to poor and illegals.&rdquo;</p>
<p align="center"><embed width="400" height="20" flashvars="file=/sites/default/files/mp3/Gilbert-Savage-Marxism.mp3" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" bgcolor="undefined" src="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/sites/default/files/mp3/player.swf"></embed></p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>Savage:</strong> How is Obama&rsquo;s campaign different this time around?</p>
<p><strong>Gilbert:</strong> Well, what&rsquo;s different is he was being very general and vague about &lsquo;hope and change&rsquo; and everybody just read into it what they wanted, nobody really knew what &lsquo;change&rsquo; meant from the socialist point of view. &lsquo;Change&rsquo; is a code word for a revolution to end capitalism. Now his Marxist ideology is just coming through loud and clear. His entire campaign is based on the top one percent, of the breathtaking greed of a few. He talks about how the rich don&rsquo;t pay their fair share. Well, anybody can just Google it and see that the top income brackets do pay up to 40 percent of income and it kind of goes down from there. So his entire campaign is based on this lie, this absurd notion that we don&rsquo;t have a fair tax system. But this is the classic Marxist rhetoric that Obama would have gotten during this indoctrination from his real father, Frank Marshall Davis.</p>
</blockquote>
<p align="center"><embed width="400" height="20" flashvars="file=/sites/default/files/mp3/Gilbert-Savage-Marxism.mp3" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" bgcolor="undefined" src="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/sites/default/files/mp3/player.swf"></embed></p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>Gilbert:</strong> National healthcare is simply a socialist tool to eliminate the middle and upper classes. So for Obama, poor quality, long waits and high taxes in this national health care doesn&rsquo;t matter. It&rsquo;s just a socialist tool. For Obama in the next term, the middle class&rsquo; health care is going to be given away to poor and illegals. Middle class&rsquo; employers are going to be taxed and regulated out of business. And the middle class&rsquo; retirement will evaporate into a bankrupt, socialist state, and Obama will achieve what he wants, which is to make America irreversibly socialist without anyone ever realizing how it happened.</p>
</blockquote>Miranda BlueBarack ObamaAlabamaBirtherC4Joel GilbertFighting the RightBill Armistead41072Fri, 21 Sep 2012 16:16:58 -0500Joel GilbertJoel Gilbert Speculates That Obama May Have Been Behind Aurora Shootinghttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/joel-gilbert-speculates-obama-may-have-been-behind-aurora-shooting
<p>Joel Gilbert, the filmmaker whose theory that President Obama is secretly the son of American labor activist Frank Marshall Davis was recently <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/alabama-gop-chairman-promotes-fringe-birther-movie-calls-it-factual-and-frightening">promoted by the chairman of the Alabama GOP</a>, is apparently open to any number of Obama-related conspiracy theories.</p>
<p>In an <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RenQQkBjJ0">interview </a>with master conspiracy theorist Alex Jones back in July, Gilbert asserted that the mass shooting in an Aurora, Colorado movie theater could very well have been orchestrated by the Obama administration in an effort to promote gun control. "I hate to say it, but you can't put anything past them," he said:</p>
<p align="center"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/jwYqN3yzrlk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>Miranda BlueAlex JonesBarack ObamaBirtherC4Coloradogun controlJoel GilbertFighting the Right41060Thu, 20 Sep 2012 15:47:24 -0500Joel GilbertAlabama GOP Chairman Promotes Fringe Birther Movie, Calls it 'Factual' and 'Frightening'http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/alabama-gop-chairman-promotes-fringe-birther-movie-calls-it-factual-and-frightening
<p>Speaking to a Republican women&rsquo;s group in Alabama yesterday, state GOP chairman Bill Armistead recommended to his audience a fringe birther movie that claims that President Obama&rsquo;s real father is American labor activist Frank Marshall Davis, according Mobile <em>Press-Register </em>political editor George Talbot, who was<a href="https://twitter.com/georgetalbot/status/248480423775199232"> reporting the event on Twitter</a>:</p>
<p align="center"><img src="http://www.pfaw.org/sites/default/files/images/thumbnails/armistead.jpg" width="505" height="175" alt="" /></p>
<p>&nbsp;The movie Armistead reportedly recommended, &ldquo;Dreams From My Real Father,&rdquo; represents a breakout fringe of the birther movement. The film, <a href="http://www.obamasrealfather.com/directors-q-and-a/">according to its director Joel Gilbert</a>, &ldquo;presents the case that Frank Marshall Davis, a Communist Party USA organizer and propagandist, was Obama's real father, both biological and ideological, and indoctrinated Obama with a political foundation in Marxism and an anti-White world view.&rdquo;</p>
<p>A <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jrrnkKmUzo&feature=player_embedded">trailer </a>for the film cuts to various right-wing bogeymen including Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers and ACORN in between misleadingly edited snippets of speeches by the president and Michelle Obama:</p>
<p align="center"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/6jrrnkKmUzo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>
<p>Gilbert&rsquo;s film has <a href="http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/05/obama_birther_movie_dreams_from_my_real_father.php">divided the birther movement</a>, since its assertion that Davis is Obama&rsquo;s real father would seem to be incompatible with the theory that the president was born in Kenya. Jerome Corsi of World Net Daily, apparently untroubled by the contradiction, has embraced the film. Birther leader Orly Taitz, however, claims that by promoting the film, Corsi is &ldquo;trying to kill the case by making up an American citizen father for Obama.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Thanks to an aggressive campaign by Gilbert, &ldquo;Dreams From My Real Father&rdquo; has had a remarkably wide reach. In September, the New York Post<a href="http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-09-11/new-york-post-runs-boldest-anti-obama-ad-yet"> ran a full-page ad </a>for the movie. Yesterday, World Net Daily r<a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/09/media-bypass-dreams-from-my-real-father-mailed-to-1-million/">eported </a>that Gilbert has sent 1 million copies of the film to households in Ohio and plans to send 1 million more out in swing states. Gilbert and Corsi both fault the mainstream media for ignoring their film, which Gilbert <a href="http://www.obamasrealfather.com/directors-q-and-a/">claims</a> they&rsquo;re doing &ldquo;because they support national health care.&rdquo;</p>
<p>In a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOmzTLdr_m4&feature=player_embedded#!">National Press Club appearance</a> this summer, Gilbert expanded on his theory, claiming that Obama and strategist David Axelrod were both &ldquo;red diaper babies,&rdquo; born of communist parents to carry on the cause; that Obama is pursuing Davis&rsquo;s &ldquo;dreams of a forced imposition of a classic Stalinist-Marxist agenda upon America at home and abroad&rdquo;; and that Obama worked with ACORN to cause the subprime mortgage crisis as part of a plan to &ldquo;use minorities and the poor to collapse capitalism.&rdquo;</p>
<p align="center"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/jOmzTLdr_m4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>
<p>This is the first we&rsquo;ve heard of a political leader embracing Gilbert&rsquo;s conspiracy theory. Armistead is a former state senator who a <a href="http://algop.org/about-us/leadership/welcome-statement-from-chairman-armistead/">became the Alabama GOP Chairman last year</a>.</p>
<p><strong>UPDATE:</strong>&nbsp;Talbot has posted some more of the <a href="http://blog.al.com/live/2012/09/alabama_gop_chairman_recommend.html#incart_river_default">context of Armistead's remarks</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>&ldquo;We have to win this election. This is about our country. Our country will not be the same,&rdquo; Armistead said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m convinced, if Obama wins, our children and grandchildren will not live under the same conditions that we&rsquo;ve lived in these wonderful years. Obama has a different ideology than we do.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Armistead suggested that audience members see the movie '2016: Obama&rsquo;s America,' a documentary by conservative commentator Dinesh D'Souza that is critical of the president.</p>
<p>&ldquo;If you haven&rsquo;t seen it, you should,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;But I&rsquo;m going to tell you about another movie. The name of it is &lsquo;Dreams From My Real Father.&rsquo; That is absolutely frightening. I&rsquo;ve seen it. I verified that it is factual, all of it. People can determine.&rdquo;</p>
</blockquote>
<p>&nbsp;</p>Miranda BlueAlabamaBirtherC4Frank Marshall DavisJoel GilbertFighting the RightBill Armistead41051Thu, 20 Sep 2012 10:27:16 -0500Joel Gilbert